Ads pay miniscule amounts per view… I’ve heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere… the more ads the better.
Which means people block the ads because they’re obnoxious, and they make nothing…
How am I going to fit my rackmount servers into it now?
TBH that doesn’t surprise me… I had a minor spat over the existence of a local supermarket, of all the stupid things… Wiki said it had been refused planning permission and never built. I had shopped in there many times, and could link to many articles about the fully built existing supermarket. I gave up after the second revert because it’s just not worth it.
It goes deeper than that. They encouraged Hamas.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
I'm in my mid 50s now and I haven't got more racist… I've got angrier that things that were wrong in my youth are still wrong now, angrier at politicians that claim to represent me spouting racist bullshit. But if anything I'm more left wing than I was, and I'm definitely more liberal than I was 10 years ago.
I made mine deliberately incompatible by disabling the fTPM but started getting the upgrade prompts recently.
They're getting there with windows 11… first it was 'hey you're compatible with windows 11' now they've stepped up to a full screen non-skippable screen a big 'upgrade to windows 11' but still with a button to stay on windows 10 hidden in the corner. It's only a matter of time before that button disappears.
Fiction tends to get more from the apocrypha and similar spurces… things like the rebellion, Lilith etc. More meat on the bones when you want to write an interesting character.
If you had to base it on a couple of lines in the old testament you'd have very little. Certainly not a netflix series worth 😁
The current system is in part because the rich got there by taking it from the previous leaders - every country has it’s revolution story, sometimes multiple ones - and they don’t want it to happen to them.
So more likely the new system would be even more efficient.
It’s only illegal in the UK in London (wierd exception, imo). On other places it’s down to local byelaws (our local council states that a car must allow enough space for a wheelchair to pass for example, although it’s rarely enforced).
The Outer Limits ‘Think Like a Dinosaur’ covered this rather creepily… https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ved5j
Concision is a word, but most people use the term brevity.
Not sure I’d die for democracy… it’s a popularity contest where 80 year old millionaires compete to see who looks best in a suit.
Freedom, sure. But that’s not the same thing.
I’d argue some magazines are basically ad pushers wrapped around a thin layer of minimum effort articles.
Hell, most of them, when I think about it.
Google, though… ads are their core business.
I don’t get it on a pixel 7 either.
Probably something added by a vendor…
Well that’s my saturday night busted…
That’s convenient…
Not pills, but nutritionally complete drinks exist and are fairly popular… there’s a section for them in the local supermarket that didn’t exist a couple of years ago.
Pills would have the same problem as anything else Economics means they’d charge the same or more (because they could) than making food anyway, making it unviable as a complete replacement for most. Or they’d make cheaper ones that were bad for you - like ready meals, you can buy quite healthy ones at a price or get total crap cheap, guess what most buy.
Happens with americans too… they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn’t).